The following list of broad-leaved herbs can be readily grown in New Zealand gardens:
Aciphylla dieffenbachii
Common name: Dieffenbach’s speargrass, soft speargrass, coxella
Family: Apiaceae
Status: Threatened – Nationally Vulnerable
Anaphalioides bellidioides
Common name: Hell’s bells
Family: Asteraceae
Status: Not Threatened
Azorella polaris
Family: Apiaceae
Status: At Risk – Naturally Uncommon
Celmisia holosericea
Common name: mountain daisy
Family: Asteraceae
Status: At Risk – Declining
Celmisia lindsayi
Common name: Lindsay’s daisy
Family: Asteraceae
Status: At Risk – Naturally Uncommon
Celmisia mackaui
Common name: Banks Peninsula daisy, Akaroa daisy
Family: Asteraceae
Status: At Risk – Naturally Uncommon
Celmisia semicordata subsp. semicordata
Common name: large mountain daisy
Family: Asteraceae
Status: Not Threatened
Celmisia sessiliflora
Common name: white cushion mountain daisy
Family: Asteraceae
Status: Not Threatened
Celmisia traversii
Common name: Mountain daisy
Family: Asteraceae
Status: Not Threatened
Celmisia verbascifolia subsp. verbascifolia
Family: Asteraceae
Status: Not Threatened
Elatostema rugosum
Common name: parataniwha, New Zealand begonia
Family: Urticaceae
Status: Not Threatened
Euphorbia glauca
Common name: shore spurge, sea spurge, waiu-atua, sand milkweed
Family: Euphorbiaceae
Status: At Risk – Declining
Forstera tenella
Family: Stylidiaceae
Status: Not Threatened
Fuchsia procumbens
Common name: creeping fuchsia, climbing fuchsia, trailing fuchsia
Family: Onagraceae
Status: At Risk – Naturally Uncommon
Geranium sessiliflorum var. arenarium
Common name: short-flowered cranesbill
Family: Geraniaceae
Status: At Risk – Declining
Geranium traversii
Common name: Chatham Island geranium
Family: Geraniaceae
Status: At Risk – Naturally Uncommon
Geum uniflorum
Common name: alpine avens
Family: Rosaceae
Status: Not Threatened
Gingidia montana
Common name: mountain aniseed, New Zealand aniseed
Family: Apiaceae
Status: Not Threatened
Gunnera hamiltonii
Family: Gunneraceae
Status: Threatened – Nationally Critical
Gunnera prorepens
Family: Gunneraceae
Status: Not Threatened
Lepidium oleraceum
Common name: nau, Cook’s scurvy grass
Family: Brassicaceae
Status: Threatened – Nationally Endangered
Leucogenes leontopodium
Common name: North Island edelweiss
Family: Asteraceae
Status: Not Threatened
Lobelia angulata
Common name: pratia
Family: Campanulaceae
Status: Not Threatened
Lobelia physaloides
Common name: colensoa, koru
Family: Campanulaceae
Status: Threatened – Nationally Vulnerable
Myosotidium hortensia
Common name: kopakopa, Chatham Island forget-me-not, kopukapuka
Family: Boraginaceae
Status: Threatened – Nationally Vulnerable
Myosotis colensoi
Common name: Castle Hill forget-me not, NZ forget-me-not
Family: Boraginaceae
Status: Threatened – Nationally Critical
Myosotis macrantha
Common name: bronze forget-me-not
Family: Boraginaceae
Status: Not Threatened
Ourisia macrophylla subsp. macrophylla
Common name: mountain foxglove
Family: Plantaginaceae
Status: Not Threatened
Ranunculus insignis
Common name: korikori, hairy alpine buttercup, hairy mountain buttercup
Family: Ranunculaceae
Status: Not Threatened
Ranunculus lyallii
Common name: giant buttercup, great mountain buttercup, Mount Cook buttercup, Mount Cook lily
Family: Ranunculaceae
Status: Not Threatened
Ranunculus sericophyllus
Common name: silky alpine buttercup
Family: Ranunculaceae
Status: Not Threatened
Raoulia grandiflora
Common name: large-flowered mat daisy
Family: Asteraceae
Status: Not Threatened
Raoulia hookeri var. hookeri
Common name: scabweed, scabweed mat daisy
Family: Asteraceae
Status: Not Threatened
Scleranthus biflorus
Common name: Canberra grass
Family: Caryophyllaceae
Status: Not Threatened
Sonchus grandifolius
Common name: Pūhā pārākau rahi, embergeria, Chatham Island sow thistle
Family: Asteraceae
Status: At Risk – Recovering
Wahlenbergia albomarginata subsp. albomarginata
Common name: New Zealand harebell, harebell
Family: Campanulaceae
Status: Not Threatened
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